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[LarssonCrew]

I've found that sometimes the FAO and the liason was the same person.

In smaller operations [I Was the only foreign teacher at a middle school with around 12 classes per level and 60 in each, so around 2000 students], and the FAO and the liason was the same person. She hired me, and was my go to, she gave me the schedule, she'd tell me any changes to the classes, when classrooms wouldn't be available, and also handed my pay and things like that.

[Jackie Chan's Double]

Yes, ideally that is what they are supposed to do.

The FAO Director was always jet setting around the world every week, supposedly to recruit new students. The entire office was either too busy to answer emails/phone calls or simply to talk to FTs in person.

Party officials always seem to get additional perks to the job besides taking naps during the day and having their student assistants do their work for them.

Despite the intense year round international recruiting effort by the FAO, there were only two foreign students, one from Ghana and one from Pakistan.

[Spatula City]

These seem like legit concerns to me:

[Jackie Chan's Double]

1. Outsourcing teachers lowers the univ's credibility as it undermines the quality of the English majors' education. GDOU instead has Chinese teachers "teaching" Oral English classes who told students to memorize passages of the bible saying it is western culture and memorizing a CNN news transcript.
Foreigners aren't allowed to teach western culture, despite the fact that language in itself is one aspect of culture.

2. Bing translator isn't the best nor is any other online translator when important documents need to be translated and there are bilingual admin officials who know both languages and can even help out alittle but don't.

3. That is the whole point, the English dept. never helped out with issues which were in their jurisdiction

[LarssonCrew]

Universities usually don't care.

The English major is a money spinner, why is that you ask?

Most majors require some kind of equipment, i.e. science requires labs, computer related requires computers, sports requires some kind of sports equipment and more space.

How many students can you get into a lab using their own equipment? Maybe 30.

How many can you cram into a normal classroom for English, about 90.

[OhBudPowellWhereArtThou]

[Jackie Chan's Double]

You must be working for the FAO office. Is your name Michelle or Carrie by any chance?

1. Yes, when FTs who have CELTAs are outsourced from English majors so that robots can give students orders to memorize useless info lowers the quality of education for the English majors who were told they would have native English speakers

2. The students had 14 pages copied from the book and were memorizing it in class. I told them to put it away as that was not our class.

3. Western History isn't western culture to some universities, just as teaching a foreign language isn't western culture to certain universities.

[OhBudPowellWhereArtThou]

[OhBudPowellWhereArtThou]

[Jackie Chan's Double]

ESL Cafe always needs trolls like you around to make posts interesting, don't they?

[OhBudPowellWhereArtThou]

[LarssonCrew]

Some universities charge students more if they have a foreign teacher, so it could also be that they are there to make some coinage for the university.

[OhBudPowellWhereArtThou]

But Jackie said that the "robots" were working in the university class while the CELTA certificate holders traveled. I would assume that the "robots" to whom he referred were non-CELTA foreign teachers of whom he disapproved.

[Non Sequitur]

[The bear]